From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:55:29 +0100 Message-Id: <00111517552904.02759@buffy> Subject: Re: [SLE] disk partitioning On Monday 13 November 2000 19:43, paulm@waitrose.com wrote:
I'm just in the process of installing SuSE 6.4 on one of my machines. This machine already has two other operating systems (Win95 and OS/2). I have a reasonable amount of disk space for SuSE (around 8 GB), but the available disk space within the first 1024 cylinders is limited (less than 2 GB). As a result, I wanted to partition the drive to leave a relatively small partition below the 1024 limit, and split the rest of the system onto partitions further up on the disk.
Can someone suggest a set of suitable mount points? I tried using one partition set as /, and another set as /usr, but this isn't a wonderful split - I've ended up with less than 100 mb on the / partition, but close to 1.6 gb on the /usr partition.
What I'm not sure of is whether I should make more than 2 partitions, or whether there is a better split than the one I've tried. Any suggestions welcome...
There are lots of religious beliefs about partitioning ! It depends a great deal on what you are going to be doing with the system. I find it very convenient to have my disks split up as follows /boot -- a few megs for kernel images and boot stuff etc / -- 250 Megs for root /usr -- Huge (!) since most interesting things get put under it /home -- seperate for easy NFS mounts etc, size depends on user population etc. /opt -- kde and some other stuff likes to use /opt /var -- a lot of temporary stuff like log files gets written here On some systems a seperate /tmp can be a good idea. It used to be a not uncommon UNIX system management practise to remake the /tmp file system on re-boot. Having said that, I use my systems for particular purposes and this arrangement suits me. For a lot of domestic setups perhaps a seperate /home and everything else under / is ok.. Seperating file systems can make a lot of sense if you have seperate disks..I would recommend at least that if you do have >1 disk to put swap devices on a disk other than /usr or /home. Cliff